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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Verdict – 2014, History for one and An eye opener to introspect for others

Verdict
– 2014, History for one and An eye opener to introspect for others

There
is Exuberance all over. Tears of joy, high spirits, enthusiasm, cheer on the
faces and a billion hopes of fulfillment of hopes are being seen around as a
new sun in the Indian democracy comes up on the horizon. From school going kids
to roadside hawkers all are happy and hope that ‘Achhey din aane wale hain’. People
of India had risen above politics of Caste, Creed and Community and voted for
Good Governance and Development. Before moving ahead I would like to mention
few things which have made this election win for BJP a historic one.

A
clear majority verdict in favor of one single party other than Congress first
time in the history of Independent India, Loss of big names like Sachin pilot, Susheel
Kumar Shinde (Home minister), Kapil Sibbal (Law minister), Salman Khurshid
(Foreign Minister) lost deposit, Ghulam Nabi Azzad(Central Minister), Shree
prakash Jaiswal (Coal Minister), Pawan Bansal (Ex-Railway minister), Farooq
Abdulla (Central Minister), Ajit Singh (Aviation Minister), Priya Dutt, Rabri
Devi, Navin Jindal, Nandan Nilekani to name a few, Clean sweep in Rajasthan
Gujarat, HP and Uttarakhand and huge miraculous victory in UP with 71 out of 80
seats is to name a few, Aam aadmi party losing deposit money on 421 seats out
of 443 they were fighting on, Congress falling below 50 and not been able to
present a leader of opposition on their own, First largest party getting more
than six times seats than second largest party, State level parties succumbing
barring a few, Congress reducing to zero in most number of states. First time
India has got a PM with 12 years executive experience.

All
I can say is its not only a historic win for BJP but a historic fall for all
other parties except TMC, AIADMK and BJD succeeding in holding their heads high
in this wave of TsuNamo.

Not
comparing the political contexts and gravity of situations I call this victory
even bigger than post emergency victory of Janta Party on a fair contest term.
Post 1977 it was Congress Vs All Others + Media and Congress got 189 seats. In
election 2014 it was All Others + Congress +Media Vs BJP and Congress got 44.
Believe it or not, like it or not but this has actually happened. BJP has got
majority and Sh. Narendra Modi is going to be our new Prime Minister despite
every other rival lobbying around one single man and using every trick in their
armor.

After
that historic win Narendra Modi ji held two rallies one in Vadodara and second
one in Ahmedabad and one address at Varanasi and in his three public addresses
in two day perhaps he had spoken more than our previous prime minister had
spoken in his entire reign of ten years. In his two speeches he conveyed his
thanks to everyone, bid a kind of farewell full of grace and gratitude to
people of Gujarat and asked their permission to play a bigger role for nation,
Like a statesman humbly asked every rival to come along and work together for a
common goal of nation-building, and very beautifully linked movement for
independence with a need to create a movement for development and how every
single person can feel proud of being a soldier of this movement for
development. Further to already started work, in his address at Varanasi he
initiated a mission for Clean India to be completed by 150th birth
anniversary of Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi in 2019 and again beautifully
linked it with Gandhi’s vision of cleanliness.

By
invoking social responsibility and a feel of playing a role and being a part in
the process of development, among the people, he perfectly started laying down
fundamental conditions required for engineering a drive for change in social
development.

There
are no usual meetings, chaos to name cabinet, ministers running here and there
after winning and announcing so many things as it used to be the political
scene till now. It is looking like a mature, sincere and a team of leaders with
grace, about to take charge of PMO.

For
crirtics I may sound like a Modi Bhakt but the truth is Bhakts (Blind Followers)
will always be followers and Critics will always criticize selectively. Like
right after Mr. Modi’s interview, few so called Senior Political analysts were
complaining why there is no haphazardness of forming cabinet, why in his first
speech Mr. Modi has not named his ministers of cabinet, why Mr. Modi has
suggested that it will take around 10 years to make this 21st
century a century of India if he had asked for 60 months to show what work he
can do. Few journalists with pseudo mindset had raised questions of Mr. Modi’s
visit to Vishwanath Temple and performing Aarti and termed it Hindu
appeasement. Some went further ahead to ask him to pay a visit to a masjid also
if he is secular. No doubt they can fall to new illogical dumb lows every other
day. Critics are critics and they will keep criticizing Mr. Modi for every
other thing like our generous media has kept doing it through the mouths of so
called Sr. Analysts, Sr. Journalists filled with pseudo mindsets who seems to
have lost their neutral eye a long back. And followers will keep defending
every blunder as oppositions agenda like Congress followers are doing from
years now and may be BJP or Modi follower will do it too in case if he fails (I
Hope he doesn’t as it will fail mine as well as millions’ only hope as of now).

Our
task as thinkers is to evolve ourselves to glance the present and focus ahead
on more important things now. I would discuss road for BJP, Congress, AAP and
Regional parties one by one.

First
time BJP has received votes from even Rural, Tribal, Dalits, Backward as well
as Muslims that they have won approximately 75% seats in Muslim majority areas
and all 13 seats reserved for Backward and Dalits in UP. First time since its
inception, BJP has got a presence in almost all states. Everyone they have
fielded succeeded in winning. Such was the wave of Mr. Modi that even Poonam
Mahajan has defeated Priya Dutt by a big margin. Here BJP need to do an
introspection that people have voted for Mr. Modi. People have voted on the
name of Mr. Modi. Had it been someone other than Mr. Modi, BJP could have ended
up around 150. No doubt there is no other leader in contemporary Indian politics
who comes even 50 % at par with vision he has. His one single speech at SRCC is
enough to proof his credentials as visionary. We who use internet and have
access to better facilities could analyze our choice basis these things. But it
was a great job done by BJP workers and selfless RSS workers working in tribals
and rural India who took Mr. Modi’s message in those dark and internal parts of
India where people have been deliberately kept poor and illiterate for vote
bank. A best leader at the top and best workers at ground level made this
impossible a possible reality. But there is a gap, a big gap in between. State
level strength and good leaders at state and corporation level is a big gap BJP
must realize about. With triumph in national elections they have a much greater
responsibility to fulfill aspirations of those who have voted for them as well
as who haven’t. On the same hand they need to equally strengthen their
organization in states. Barring a couple of states there aren’t good leaders properly
placed at states that people could see with a faith, trust and credibility.
Good governance and development agenda has to be taken down the line to corporations
as well. Hard work and enthusiasm must be carried forward to overhaul state
machinery for next five years in every assembly elections. This energy should
be continued to carry in upcoming Maharashtra, Delhi and Haryana assembly
elections. UP and Bihar must be taken care the most and BJP under good
leadership in these two states is utmost necessary to carry on development in
these two least developed states. Another mission must be for North-East India
and we wish a name like Dr. Swamy or a big leader to be given that
responsibility to revive North East India. Someone with big credentials needs
to be given a task to take care of J&K and revive Kashmir and Laddakh. And
along with ground level workers, social media intellects who have successfully
defeated sick pseudo secular agendas still need to keep working their selfless
work to keep those anti social elements at bay.

After
getting such a worst defeat that even opposition needs to be a coalition,
Congress need to introspect and bring a total change in their way of working. Till
now they have never looked beyond a clan for occupying top position and in one
way or another that top clan has controlled every policy and thought process.
They have never come out of using secularism rant, freebies and subsidies for
sure short vote bank. In last five years there leadership has drastically failed
to stand up against odds of policy failures, scams, security of people but
still instead of accepting that with humility they shamelessly kept asking votes
on the promises of removing poverty the way they had ben doing since last 30
years from the time of Smt Indira Gandhi. Their two virtual leaders or power
centre, Mother –Son duo never came forward and gave an explanation to numerous
scams. It took 7 long days for PMO to give a one line statement on an Incidence
of rape which shook moral grounds of whole nation. How can they expect people
of India to believe that they are serious about woman empowerment in such conditions?
A leader show his character by what he stands for and leadership under which
congress is working has never shown any strength of character. Only one
attribute congress followers give to Mr Rahul Gandhi is how he took a bold
stand against Ordinance for tainted ministers but the reality is that was not a
pro stand he had taken. He only replied honestly in the flow when a journalist
asked about it and then party had to keep his words. In a true democracy ruling
party and opposition both must be strong enough to represent its people. Congress,
with its age old ideology and western centric way of running the country under
flag of one family need to be reduced to ashes. Where every big leader of BJP
could be seen saying he is just a karykarta (worker) of party and whatever role
party decide for them they accept it with honor and exemplifies humbleness even
after a great win, congress leaders could be seen full of arrogance defending
their failure in their second regime and even after humiliating defeat that
arrogance is intact. I just wish honest
congress leader to rise above Gandhi clan and revive the party with a deep
introspection.

After
a miraculous win at assembly elections in Delhi, their every action kept taking
them away from what they stood for. Corruption took a back seat and every
campaign converged to stop bandwagon of Mr. Modi. A party associating
everything they do with the name of Aam Aadmi wasn’t campaigning against ruling
party which was responsible for sufferings of Aam Aadmi and instead tried their
level best to stop the opposition best positioned to displace that ill rule
full of corruption. Ultimately national ambitions of Aam aadmi party get halted
due to hate propaganda they were spreading against India’s most loved leader. They
kept on saying they will stop Modi and Rahul by any mean but never held a base
to the question who will we end up having as PM Mulayam singh Yadav or Mayawati
in that case. In the process they fell from a party with aam aadmi aspirations
and hopes to just another party with high political ambitions. Such was drastic
performance of this change that 421 out of 443 fielded candidates lost their
deposits. Only 4 seats they managed to win was in the Malwa region of Punjab
which was a strong hold of Shiromini Akali Dal and a high level of incumbency
went against them as well as four candidates had a rich past and credible
history. ). I hope AAP do well in state elections in Punjab as well and that
should have been the way to move ahead providing a viable alternative with
properly searched and acceptable candidate in most of the states where congress,
BJP or regional parties have failed to work for aam aadmi. I wish they realize
they didn’t lose due to lack of experience in politics and won due to non
compromised honesty as Mr. Yogendra yadav has stated today, they lost due to
politics they played and honesty they compromised (Not to mention AAP leader
was the only one caught distributing money in VaranasiAAP need to introspect
and oh dear Mr. Kejriwal it is going to be very tough to become a party for aam
aadmi again.

Most
of the regional parties were came into existence due to specific needs unattended
of a particular set of people and that lead to birth of caste and religion
based politics. For almost 25 years it has been a hen laying golden eggs for
opportunists but their time seems to come to an end and they need to redevelop
themselves. TMC, AIADMK and BJD has been successful examples of performance. No
other factor other than performance could have saved regional players and these
three have managed to sweep their respective states. Mayawati (BSP), Nitish
Kumar (JDU), Mulayam Singh Yadav(SP) and Badals (SAD) will have to look their
counterparts Jayalalitha, Mamta Banerjee and Naveen Patnayak if they think they
will play a role in changing India and a changing world.